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• Calculations with error propagation, and semi-formal expressions

  Python / calculus, error propagation, expressions, formal calculations, lazy evaluation, uncertainties / by Eric O. LEBIGOT (8 hours ago, revision 6)
• lazy property

  Python / evaluation, lazy, lazy evaluation / 1 point (1 vote) / by Sridhar Ratnakumar (1 day, 20 hours ago, revision 5)
• Flattened List

  Python / flat, generator, itertools, list, nested / by marlonamor (4 days ago)
• Homogeneous list

  Python / list, type / by marlonamor (4 days ago)
• PDF a Directory of Images using Reportlab

  Python / directory, images, PDF / 3 points (3 votes) / by andrew.canit (6 days, 3 hours ago)
• Create SHA Hashes of a Directory

  Python / encryption, Hash, security, SHA / -2 points (2 votes) / by andrew.canit (4 days, 4 hours ago, revision 2)
• REAL case insensitive string replace

  Python / case, case insensitive, python, replace, str / by Jonas Haag (1 week, 1 day ago)
• Extract a compressed file

  Python / no tags / 1 point (1 vote) / by Sridhar Ratnakumar (1 week, 2 days ago, revision 2)
• Unique lines from a text file, case sensitive or insensitive

  Python / uniq, unique lines / -2 points (2 votes) / by nick (1 week, 5 days ago)
• Handling ties for top largest/smallest elements

  Python / heapq, largest, smallest, top / by George Sakkis (1 week, 3 days ago, revision 8)
• Yet another enum for Python

  Python / enum / 1 point (1 vote) / by Antonio Cuni (2 weeks, 1 day ago)
• Multi-Regex: Single pass replace of multiple regexes

  Python / Regular expressions, string substitution / -1 points (1 vote) / by Michael Palmer (2 weeks ago, revision 5)
• Parallel map

  Python / algorithm, map, parallel / -2 points (2 votes) / by Miki Tebeka (2 weeks, 1 day ago, revision 3)
• DVM_Versus_CAPM

  Python / Corporate_Finance, Financial_Management / -2 points (4 votes) / by Fouad Teniou (2 weeks, 3 days ago, revision 3)
• Long period random number generator

  Python / no tags / 1 point (3 votes) / by Raymond Hettinger (2 weeks, 3 days ago, revision 12)
• Serve static web content from within a gzipped tarball to save space using CherryPy

  Python / cherrypy, compression, embedded, gzip, html, http, network, routes, web, web server / 1 point (1 vote) / by Dan McDougall (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
• pyGTK threading

  Python / pygtk, threading / -1 points (1 vote) / by oohay_email2004 (2 weeks, 3 days ago, revision 2)
• Python code minifier

  Python / compression, embedded, minify, parsing, regex / 2 points (4 votes) / by Dan McDougall (3 days, 19 hours ago, revision 11)
• xzip - Iterative zip function for very large collections

  Python / generator, iterative zip, zip / -4 points (6 votes) / by Tucker Beck (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
• Pattern Matching in Python

  Python / no tags / by forgot (2 weeks, 5 days ago, revision 2)

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